“It takes a community filled with ‘Team Spirit’ to run a summer season filled with quality events, and Flemington gets it right,” says Ron Van Horn the Flemington Car Show chairman.

Flemington has events of some shape or form that are scheduled or happening on a weekly basis throughout the summer. The great thing about these events are they are just about all free to the community. Many of the scheduled events are either run by or assisted by, The Flemington Business Improvement District. In addition to their own events, the FBID nonprofit organization tries to enhance other organizations efforts by adding marketing support or volunteers when it is possible. You can find most of the scheduled Flemington events listed at downtownflemington.com. Van Horn says, “Without a good quality base of volunteers, there is no way you could achieve the level of events that Flemington manages. A quality volunteer is someone who says they can help, and then you can count on them to be there when you need them, to work hard. The July 26th Main Street car show had nearly 20 people volunteering for the day, that consisted of business owners, employees, and caring residents. At the show, Unity Bank had four volunteers for the day, Central Hunterdon Baptist Church had at least four volunteers, and several others that made up the day’s team. When you add in the paid service people, sponsors, behind the scenes prep and clean up volunteers, as well as the public workers that it takes to pull off this summers’ great community Flemington schedule, that is a whole bunch of “Team Spirit.”

The next car show with its main sponsor, Fred Beans-Toyota-Kia-Scion of Flemington, is Saturday, Aug. 9, 5:30-8:30 p.m.